Wifi Dongle Drivers

[ye-ma]

Hi everyone,

I know there are loads of threads on this but I can never seem to be able to find a proper answer. I have a Wifi adapter that isn't recognized by the system, going to the driver manager shows an unknown piece of hardware (which I believe is a red herring, a random motherboard driver that does nothing for the Wifi problem). It came with a CD-ROM with a driver on it but I haven't a clue what terminal commands are used to install it. The output for the lsusb command is;

Code:

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bda:0156 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Storage Device
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 279e:024e 
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0e8d:7610 MediaTek Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

If someone can point me in the right direction, I'd be really grateful, this has been driving me up the wall for a couple of days now.

[torreydale]

This isn't helping.  You should supply the make and model number of the wifi adapter.

[ye-ma]

Hi,

Sorry, it is a BrosTrend AC600 Dual Band, Model No WNA016

Thanks.

[torreydale]

The system requirement is for Windows.  So it appears there's no Linux support.
http://www.trendtechcn.com/Product.aspx?...2&TypeId=1 

[ye-ma]

Hi,

It claims to have Linux support, and as I say it came with a CD-ROM with a driver on it, but no instructions for installing it.

Thanks.

[torreydale]

Then you should contact their support folks for help on that at [email protected].  It looks like you'll have to compile the driver.

[Wirezfree]

A Google of the device & id ((Device 002: ID 0e8d:7610)) shows lots of variants of this device with install issues...

This Link 1
points to
This Link 2 (Solved)

May help

[ye-ma]

Second one worked fine.

Thanks, you've been a godsend 

[Wirezfree]

No problems... GL

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